Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:54:52 -0800 (PST) From: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011210225452.65655.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011210164300.N92148@elvis.mu.org>
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hi, the license issues dont really affect us... after all we have an src/gnu directory... thats what it is for... dumping GPL'ed stuff.... and talking about GPL, we can even publish the code as the GPL license states... after all we are an Open Source Project, but if we were commercial... it would have affected us.. but thats not the case... the only other thing is, i am itermediatory C programmer and i have never ported a filesystem before. but.. that doesn't affect me a lot.. its experience which i will gain... After all the whole of the FreeBSD Team is on my back, so there is nothing to worry about... I have already turned the Source code tree for JFS into DoxyGen Generated Pages... i have started to look into it... I am sure it is possible to port it to FreeBSD... though... it may be a bit trickier (not hard)... never say never :-) =Hiten =<hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org> --- Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote: > * Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> [011210 > 16:40] wrote: > > > * Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> [011210 > 16:02] wrote: > > > > hi all, > > > > > > > > this is a wild idea...suggestion... > > > > > > > > i wanted to ask if there were any _plans_ to > port > > > > JFS (Journaled File System) to FreeBSD... > > > > > > > > as for JFS, it is developed by IBM for Linux > and > > > > is licensed under GPL, so we could put this > into > > > > src/gnu/ > > > > > > > > It is used on IBM MainFrames and Enterprise > servers > > > > for > > > > high performance and maximum throughput... > > > > > > I'm glad you took the time to read the > marketting literature. > > > > > > The problem is that porting it is going to be a > bit more complicated > > > than just dumping it into src/gnu. > > > > > > Feel free to take a shot at porting it though, > let us know > > > when you're done. > > > > I'm gainfully employed by IBM (although not for > FreeBSD pursuits), and have > > had this on my TODO list for a while. > > > > The licence issue is a real sticky point, > especially since the GPL and BSD > > licences are like oil and water. Because of the > GPL licence, JFS support > > can never become part of the GENERIC kernel, and > any related support tools > > will have to exist as separate binaries > (newfs.jfs, fsck.jfs), as is > > currently done with the EXT2FS filesystem. > > This is pretty much how they all work, on netbsd the > LFS filesystem > has its own suite of seperate utilities as well. > Don't be discouraged, > get hacking! :) ===== -Hiten, Thank You, Yours Sincerely, Hiten Pandya, <hiten@uk.freebsd.org> <http://www.geocities.com/hitmaster2k>; __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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